18.1296, Qs: Russian Suffixes [...]
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Wed May 2 14:24:24 UTC 2007
The -nnik unlike the regular -nik would be morphologically based on
an adjective or participle. As for connotations, Victor Lychik did
once a study comparing -nik, and -tel' (or maybe shchik and -tel'),
that was some 15 years ago. It must be published somewhere, that's a
start. I always begin with MLA bibliography, somebody must have
written something on the subject.
Alina
On May 2, 2007, at 12:44 AM, Loren A. Billings wrote:
> Katharina (CC: SEELangs and SlavicLing lists),
>
> I post copies of this message to two Slavic lists that might bring
> forth
> additional suggestions. I would recommend that you look at any of a
> number
> of backwards dictionaries of Russian. The best is _Grammaticheskii
> slovar'
> russkogo iazyka_ by Zalizniak. There's another, the title of which
> begins
> with _Obratnyi slovar'_ (if memory serves). All these retrograde
> dictionaries list words alphabetically but by the last letter of
> the word.
> Thus, you'd get all words ending in <nshchik> and <nnik> grouped
> together;
> from there, you can look for patterns in other dictionaries that
> list their
> meanings. If you don't have access to either one, write me back and
> I'll
> type in the other words and complete references. --Loren
>
> On 5/1/07 1:17 AM, <linguist at LINGUISTLIST.ORG> wrote:
>
>> From: Katharina Gernet < gernet at eth.mpg.de >
>> Subject: Russian Suffixal Morphemes -shchiki/-niki
>>
>>
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> I am a cultural anthropologist working with the Evens in Central
>> Kamchatka,
>> Russian Far East. An issue that is discussed by anthropologists
>> not only in
>> respect with the Evens from Kamchatka but with a number of other
>> Siberian
>> indigenous groups is the phenomenon of so-called
>> ''neotraditionalism'',
>> i.e. - to put it simple - the ''return'' from a life in the
>> village to
>> ''traditional'' forms of subsistence as fishermen, hunters, reindeer
>> herders etc. in the taiga and tundra for various reasons.
>>
>> I have heard local Evens in Kamchatka speaking of themselves in
>> Russian as
>> ''traditsionniki'' as well as ''traditsionshchiki''. I wonder what
>> might be
>> the differing semantic connotations of the suffixes -shchiki/-
>> niki. From
>> the contextual situation I drew the conclusion that while
>> ''traditsionniki'' seems to be a more neutral term,
>> ''traditsionshchiki''
>> might have some expressive connotation of irony in it or something
>> of a
>> distanced view on the issue at hand (indigenous people citing
>> academic
>> writers about ''neotraditionalism'' with a certain smile or critical
>> attitude).
>>
>> My question to you is: Can anyone of you give me a hint where to find
>> information about the possible semantic connotations of the Russian
>> suffixal morphem -shchiki in contrast to -niki? I would be
>> grateful for any
>> suggestions.
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance for your help.
>>
>> With kind regards,
>>
>> Katharina Gernet
>> Max-Planck-Institut for Social Anthropology
>> Halle/Saale, Germany
>>
>> Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
>
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